Take control of your knee pain
Knee pain is the most common health issue in mountain regions and urban centres alike. But simple home exercises and stretches can help ease some common types of knee pains.
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Opinion
A war of liberation for Afghan women?
The euphemism of “collateral damage” encompassed bombing raids and cruise missile assassination strikes that killed civilians, meaning women and girls as well as men and boys. Berry quotes one critic of the war who argued that the alleged concern for women put a “feminist glow on some of the most brutal bombings.
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Afghan envoy says hold-out Panjshir province can resist Taliban rule
DUSHANBE, Aug 18: The Afghan ambassador to Tajikistan on Wednesday rejected Taliban rule of his country and said Panjshir province,
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Land struggles
Pakistan, where land developers of all stripes are facilitated by all mainstream political parties and the judiciary. Where sitting provincial and federal governments go to great lengths to point out how this rampant conversion of people’s livelihoods and shelter for profits of the few is a central plank of their development strategy. Where the laundered proceeds of real estate development are given safe passage and an ‘agreeable adjustment’, and where those resisting this injustice like activists of the Awami Workers Party, the Sindhi rights movements, and the farmers’ movements in Lahore and Sheikhupura, are subjected to repression, imprisonment, and coercion.
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A youth-led development agenda for Gilgit-Baltistan
Riaz Akbar spells out a comprehensive youth-led development roadmap for Gilgit-Baltistan, outlining four areas that can kick-start GB’s economy and increase the whole pie of the budget.
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Domestic violence: Let’s talk about it!
Domestic violence, rape, and murder have been around in Gilgit-Baltistan for so long, but these subjects are considered taboos in our society. People till the recent past wouldn’t dare to talk about these subjects openly. We tend to keep them under the carpet to save the so-called ‘honour’ of the family, region, or religion.
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Palestinian issue: It’s time for Israelis and Palestinians to rethink
The only solutions to the Palestinian issue, is to establish a secular democratic state where Muslims, Jews and Christians co-exist with harmony as equal citizens. Only this single state narrative can serve as a guarantee to shun any move to divide the society on a religious, ethnic, or racial basis.
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‘Hosnia had dreams’: grief in Kabul as girls’ school targeted
Hazara community in mourning but defiant after more than 60 people killed in school bomb blasts by Stefanie Glinski in
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The curious case of GB’s census data
By Noor Akbar A month ago, I was making a PowerPoint presentation on the latest population statistics of Pakistan and
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Politics of the Kyrgyz mining sector
The mining sector of the Kyrgyz Republic has been attracting a lot of diverse investments even despite frequent conflicts and
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May Day manifesto
Covid-19 has shown how much we miss a powerful workers movement.
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Meet Ghizer’s Iqrarul Hassan
By Sher Zaman It was a chilly morning of March 2021 at the busy Gahkuch Bazaar. The bazaar here opens
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Remembering Mashal means resisting politics of hate
by Aasim Sajjad Akhtar When Mashal Khan was brutally lynched four years ago, the Tehrik-e-Labbaik-Pakistan (TLP) was still a relatively
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Conflict, peace and fragility: fault lines in G-B
By Ghulam Amin Beg For some years we thought that we have learned our lessons and embraced peace after decades
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Youth engagement key to effective development
YCD project is an initiative under the Programme for Poverty Reduction (PPR) of PPAF which aimed to improve the socio-economic landscape of the most underdeveloped rural areas of Balochistan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) including the ex-FATA region now part of KP
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